Bulstrode, Edward [1588 - 1659]The Third Part of The Reports Of Edward Bulstrode Of the Inner Temple ESQ; His Highnesse Chief Justice of North-Wales Of divers Resolutions and Judgements, given with great advice, and Mature deliberation by the Grave, Reverend, and Learned Judges, and Sages of the LAW Of Cases and Matters in Law: With the Reasons and causes of their said Resolutions and Judgements, given in the Court of Kings Bench in the time of the late Reign of King James, and the beginning of King Charles Printed for W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell,, 1659-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Bound in fine, period-style modern 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Fine binding and cover. Collated. [20], 341, [1], index [24] pp. License laid on rear pastedown. Generally clean, and unmarked. Light foxing. Scarce, stray, early marginalia. Wing B5448. ESTC R226767. A view of 17th century English common law. The first edition of the third part of Bulstrode's reports. Dean's Memo and Brown's Bibliography list the second edition of this text was in John Marshall's law notes. An interesting excerpt, "The poorest person living, were not the Law his refuge, would be yet more unhappy then his present condition can make him, for be he never so mean he is within its care, and the greatest Person living is not exempted from its Power" And, "But is is not a licentious Liberty which the Law gives us, but a real Freedom, a freedom from Slavery and Tyranny." (Speaking of the Liberties of England, referencing Lord Coke.) Bulstrode draws deeply from the Western legal tradition, citing Justinian's code, Coke, Hooker, Aristotle, the Magna Carta, Roman law, etc. Much of the legal basis of law he presents is familiar to modern English and American jurists, and political philosophers. Edward Bulstrode (c.1588-1659) was a noted English jurist. During the 1620s-1630s, he served on the courts of chancery, king's bench, and Star Chamber. Bulstrode's best know work was his law reports, 'covering king's bench suits in 1610 17, and 1625 6, as well as some poor-law assizes cases from the early years of Charles I. These were translated by Bulstrode from his original law-French notes into English, the first reports to have been so published by their author." - Wilfrid Prest, Bulstrode, Edward (c.1588-1659), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Riviere, LazareObservationum medicarum... centuria quarta Lyons: Antoine Cellier, 1659. First Description of Aortic StenosisRIVIERE, Lazare (1589-1655). Observationum medicarum, & curationum insignium centurae tres. . . . Edited by Simeon Jacoz. 4to. [8], 311, [9]pp. Lyons: Antoine Cellier, 1659. 225 x 167 mm. Speckled sheep c. 1659, rubbed, small wormhole in front cover. Some foxing, browning & dampstaining, old repair to one leaf. Very good copy. Old signature and notes on endpapers. First Edition. Riviere was the first to describe stenosis of the aortic valve, from a case that he treated in 1646. GM 2727 cites Riviere's description of this condition in his Opera medica universa (1674), of which the present work is the first edition; the description appears here on p. 177, and is entitled "Cordis palpitatio & pulsus inaequalitas." Riviere also brought Paracelsian iatrochemistry into the curriculum of the University of Montpellier, and it was under his auspices that Alexander Fraser introduced the Harviean theory of the circulation into the University's curriculum in 1636. An edition of the present work was published in The Hague in the same year as this Lyons edition. As Riviere was French it is reasonable to presume that the Lyons edition was first. Hirsch. Norman 1837. Willius & Dry, p. 58. Thorndike VIII, p. 518.

Livius, TitusThe Romane Historie written by T. Livius of Padua : Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: vvith a chronology to the vvhole historie; and the topography of Rome in old time. Translated out of Latine into English, by Philemon Holland, Doctor in Physick. To which is now added, A supplement of the second decad of Livy (which was lost.) Lately written in Latine by I. Freinshemius, and now newly translated into English London: printed by W. Hunt, for Gabriel Bedell, at the Middle Temple Gate, 1659. Second Holland edition. Portrait of Livy in text, epitaph within woodcut border, ornamental headpieces. [10], 298, 297-1122, [44], 95 [i.e. 98], [2] pp. Title-leaf is a cancel. Folio. Bound in contemporary speckled calf, gilt spine, red leather title label. Stamp of Farrer Farrer Magd. Coll. on pastedown. Joints starting but still sound. Leaves E4 and Dd4 with small perforation and slight loss. Overall, a handsome copy, about very good. Philemon Holland's Livy Includes: "A supplement of the second decad of Livie's Roman History", which has a separate dated title page with imprint "... printed for Joshua Kirton, Abel Roper, Gabriel Bedell, and George Sawbridge ..."; with separate pagination and register.Attractive copy of Holland's Livy, the first edition of which was published in 1600. "[Holland's] was the romance not of feeling, but of decoration. He loved ornament with the ardour of an ornamental age, and he tricked out his authors with all the resources of Elizabethan English. The concision and reticence of the classics were as nothing to him. He was ambitious always to clothe them in the garb which they might have worn had they been not mere Englishmen, but fantastics of his own age ..." - The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.

Blaeu, GuiljelmusMorea. "Morea olim Peloponnesus Greece: Amsterdam Joahannes and Cornelius Blaeu. 1659. Original coloured, copper engraved map of the Peloponnesus from Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Mayor. sino Cosmographia Bavania en La Qual Exactamente Se descrive La tierre, El mar Y El Cielo " Double page; folio; Spanish text to verso. The map shows the Peloponnesus with the gulf of Corinth to the north, the islands of the Saronic Gulf and Cerigo/ Kithera Decorative old coloured title cartouche surmounted by the Ottoman flag; scale cartouche to upper right; ships to sea. From the scarce Spanish text edition of the" Atlas Major". Original colour; minor spotting worse to margins; left margin trimmed but ample; two worm tracks [approx 10mm] to each side blank margin; short split at lower centre fold & crease to lower left corner [backed with archival tape] . Willem Janszoon Blaeu [1571- 1668] had set up the business in Amsterdam 1596 following studies with the famous astonomer Tycho Brahe. In 1630 Willhem published his first atlas "Atlas Appendix", having published maritime cartography, books, charts and pilot guides for previous thirty years. Appointed Hydrographer of the V. O. C. ( United East India Company)in 1633 he died in 1638. leaving the company to his sons Joan and Cornelius Of Cornelius little is know; his name appearing on in the prefaces of books and atlases only until c1645. Dr Joan Blaeu [ 1596-1673] who had studied at Leiden took over the management of the business and established its fame. He was also appointed Hydrographer to the V. O. C. ( 1638), but his interests leant more to geography than maritime cartography. His aim was" a full description of heaven, earth and water" ( Koeman) which was unachievable. but his work produced the magnificent "Atlas Major" and the Town books of the Netherlands and Italy; works unsurpassed in history and modern times. The "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum " or "Atlas Novus" Willem Blaeu's great project enlarging the "Appendix" was advertised in 1634, was first published in a preliminary edition in 1635. (preface dated 10-3-1634) two volumes. The final edition comprising again two volumes with 109 & 99 maps respectively with German text also published 1635; an edition with Dutch text, (preface dated 22-4-1635) 104 & 103 maps; French text( preface dated 1-7-1635) 105 & 103 maps; and with Latin text (preface dated "ipsis Aprillis")105 & 102 maps. In 1640, after Willem's death a Third volume with French text and comprising 58 maps of Italy and 8 of Greece, was published; later the same year an edition was produced with Latin text. Still in 1640, variant editions in both languages were issued with an appendix of 4 maps of the British Isles as a precursor to the Fourth volume, which would be a complete description thereof. This would appear in 1645. The "Atlas Novus" was eventually extended to six volumes with the addition of a fifth volume, Scotland in 1654 and the following year a sixth the "Atlas Sinensis"of Martini. Joan Blaeu recognised that the wealthy patrons who would buy such an atlas were primarily concerned with display, thus aesthetic considerations were emphasised: the quality of the paper, binding, beautiful typography and bright colour, making maps from the Blaeu printing house amongst the most decorative of their time. The rare Spanish edition of the Atlas Maior occupies an extraordinary place within the Blaeu epic. In contrast to the editions in other languages, its volumes were printed serially over fifteen years, printed in more limited quantity, bore different titles, and were not numbered. The genesis of this project came with the decision to produce the Spanish Atlas Nuevo, with the volume relating to Scotland first published in 1657, and that on China the following year. In 1659 the volumes relating to Northern Europe, Eastern Europe and England were produced, along with second editions of the two volumes already published. Even before Joan Blaeu had made preparations to publish the Atlas Maior in other languages, he decided to turn the extant volumes of the Atlas Nuevo into the first five volumes of the Atlas Mayor. The long process of production meant that there were variations in title and imprint, as well as the collation of specific volumes. The volume on Spain was the last to be printed, before a fire which broke out in Blaeu's Gravenstraat workshop on the night of 22-23 February, 1672. It destroyed many of the original copperplates and printed sheets for the Atlas Mayor, and led to production of the projected eleventh volume, relating to Asia, Africa and America, being abandoned. The Atlas Mayor (the Spanish edition of the Atlas Maior) is the rarest edition of what De la Fontaine Verwey called "the greatest and finest atlas ever published". Zacharakis;385/246; Koeman1, Bl 60A [274/Kkk] Greece Peloponnesus Morea Cerigo Kithera

[Brachel, Johann Adolph] Brachelius, Adolphus Van Den Bos, LambertHistoria nostri temporis, dat is: geschiedenis onses tijts, door Adolphus Brachelius ... Beginnende met het jaer 1618, en vervolght tot het jaer 1654. Uyt de Latijnsche in de Nederduytsche tael overgeset door L. v. B Tot Nymegen: voor Andries van Hoogenhuyse, (Harderwyck, : J. Toll), 1659. Second edition. Later calf stamped in blind over beveled wood boards, four raised bands, metal clasps. A very good copy, clasps lacking locks, some soiling to title page and endpapers, a few minor tears, a few leaves at the end with small loss to upper fore-corners not affecting text, small ink stain on fore edge, text and portraits quite sharp. Sm. 8vo. Illus. with engraved extra title and 98 [of 101(?)] portraits Hoogenhuyse published his first edition of the Dutch translation of Brachelius popular Latin work on the Thirty Years' War in 1656 in Rotterdam and then this second when he moved his operation to Nymegen. OCLC shows only five copies of this uncommon edition, all in the Netherlands.

[West India Company (WIC)]Manifest, ofte reden van den oorlogh tusschen Portugael, ende de Vereenichde Provintien van de Nederlanden, met de aenwijsinge vande oorsaeck waer die uyt ontstaen is. Tot Lisbon in de Portugesche en Castiliaensche taelen gedruckt ende uytgegeven Reasons for the Dutch-Portuguese war, very rare. 1659. Hague. Henricus Hondius. In 4to (198 mm x 150 mm). 56 pp. Wrappers. Title slightly soiled, overall uniform toning.First Dutch edition. The Manifest is a translation of the Razam da guerra entre Portugal, e as Provincais Unidas dos Paizes Baxos (Lisbon 1657). Contains references to the troubles in Brazil between the Dutch Republic and Portugal, which resulted in 1661 in the loss of the colony by the Dutch. The Dutch-Portuguese War was an armed conflict involving Dutch forces in the form of the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company, against the Portuguese (1602 ?" 1663). During the conflict, Salvador de Bahia for instance, would change hands back and forth twice; raids and acts of privateering were common as well. The result of the war was that Portugal won in South America (Dutch Brazil) and Africa (Angola and São Tomé), and the Dutch were the victors in the Far East and South Asia. The war was concluded in 1661, and the terms were settled with the treatise "Articuli Pacis" (1663). The work includes a reply to Sousa de Macedo: Manifesto of the lies and fictions with which it is filled, and also a short and true account of the faithless and perjured proceedings of the King of Portugal and of his subjects, and that they are themselves the true reason and even the commencement of this war.Knuttel, 8173. Asher, 290. Sabin, 44265. European-Americana III, 121. Borba de Moraes, 514. Rodrigues, 670.

TORRIANO, GioA Dictionary Italian & English London: T. Warren for Jo. Martin, Ja. Allestry, and Tho. Dicas, 1659. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. 2 vols. in 1, each with separate title page. Unpaginated. 33 cm. First edition (second edition was 1688). Modern 3/4 leather binding. Some shelf wear. Minor staining in interior margins, some darkening of text pages, small chip in corner p. P4, spotting on p. V3-4, tear in bottom of X and Y4, large Rorschach test on p. Pp4 with ink stain on top margin extending for several signatures, Eee3 and Eee2 reversed, wormholing in second volume g - m, small tear at bottom of Cc. Standard flaws for a book of this age; condition is quite good. A dictionary to help the English discover Italy - "that Paradife of Art and Nature, that Academy and Garden of the World" (Preface).

Philipott ThomasVillare Cantianum: Or Kent Surveyed and Illustrated Being an Exact Description of All the Parishes, Burroughs, Villages and Other Respective Mannors Included in the County of Kent; And, the Original and Intermedial Possessors of Them, Even Until These Ti London: Printed by William Godbid, 1659. Book measures 11 x 7 inches. Collation, [16],401,[1],pp, lacking map. Bound in full calf, raised bands, gilt lines, leather title label. At some time, ( not recentely ), this volumes has been rebacked, retaining the original boards, spine worn, defective on head and tail, some abrasion wear. Binding in good clean firm condition. Internally, previous owners bookplate and early annotations on endpapers. Title page strengthened, repaired, 4 short pieces on paper tape along inner margin, with loss of a few letters, about 40 pages have light staining, some spotting. Generally, text in good condition. A good copy, in a good full leather binding. A7.2.. First Edition. Good Plus. Small Folio.

James LeyReports of Divers Resolutions in Law, Arising upon Cases in the Court of Wards [with] A Learned Treatise Concerning Wards & Liveries [etc ] London: Printed by Tho. Roycroft for H. Twyford, Tho. Dring [etc.], 1659. Contemporary unlettered sheep, quite scraped, yet sound and crisp The well-regarded and only contemporaneously printed reports and treatise devoted exclusively to the Court of Wards and Liveries in which, in Dr. Baker's words, "the best lawyers of the day were involved" in difficult questions of property law

James HarringtonThe Art of Law-Giving: in III Books. The First Shewing the Foundations . . . of all the kinds of Government. The Second, Shewing the . . . Commonwealths of Israel and of the Jews. The Third, Shewing a Model fitted unto the present State [etc.]. Wing H806 London: Printed by J.C. for Henry Fletcher, at the three Gilt Cups [etc.], 1659. Early 3/4 calf, rubbed, front hinge strained but firm, imprint shaved and top and bottom margins cut close, the main text unaffected; a good copy The only early edition of the work which J.G.A. Pocock numbered among Harrington&#39;s "most ambitious", appearing soon after his &#39;Oceana&#39; and in part its forceful abridgement, propelling Harrington into "the mainstream of national political argument

Ley JamesReports of Divers Resolutions in Law, Arising upon Cases in the Court of Wards Printed by Tho. Roycroft for H. Twyford, Tho. Dring [etc.], London 1659 - ?Contemporary calf, very worn, rebacked; sound The well-regarded and only contemporaneously printed reports and treatise devoted exclusively to the Court of Wards and Liveries, the financially important and controversial court which flourished for over a century after its formation by Henry VIII

de Saavedra Faxardo, Don Diego (1584-1648)Idea de un Principe Politico Christiano Reresentada en cien empresas Ioh. Ianssonium Iuniorem, Amsterdam 1659 - 12mo., 14 by 8 cm. [24, ]835 pp., with 103 emblems plus title illustration sharply and minutely etched, and including title. This is more than title suggests. Text proper has in actuality 101 symbols and thus emblems, plus there is an additional emblem in the prelims and one at the end of the work. This is a Latin translation of the Spanish original. The contemporary vellum has some soiling, especially where creased on the spine, but still attractive and a bright patina survives. A light dampstaining affects some leaves. Overall the leaves are Pages 793/4 have an archival repair of a smallish closed tear.

Samuel PepysA handsome first edition of Samuel Pepys' famous diary, one of the most cited sources for the study of Restoration England Samuel Pepys, Richard, Lord Braybrooke, ed., Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II. comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, A. B. of St. John's College, Cambridge, from the Original short-hand Ms. in the Pepysian Library, and a Selection form his Private Correspondence. (London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1825) 2 volumes, quarto. [4], xlii, 498, [2], xlix pp.; [4], 348, 311 pp. with 12 engraved plates including a folding map. Bound in gilt-edged full leather boards and ribbed spine with ornate gilt titling and tooling. First Edition. Boards somewhat rubbed at edges and corners, spine split but binding intact, pages opposite engravings toned from ink transfer (which is typical for these volumes), still most pages fairly clean with only minor soiling, minor dampstains visible at fore edges. First edition of this key historical record of Restoration London, which remained un

MOXON, JosephTUTOR TO ASTRONOMIE AND GEOGRAPHIE 1659 - MOXON, Joseph. A TUTOR TO ASTRONOMIE AND GEOGRAPHIE: OR AN EASIE AND SPEEDY WAY TO KNOW THE USE OF BOTH THE GLOBES, CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL. IN SIX BOOKS. Whereunto is added the Antient Poetical Stories of the Stars : shewing several reasons why the several shapes and forms are pictured on the Celestial Globe. Collected from Doctor [Thomas] Hood. As also a Discourse of the Antiquity, Progress and Argumentation of Astronomie. London: Printed by Joseph Moxon, 1659. First edition. Engraved illustrated title-page in Latin ("Ductor ad Astronomiam & Gographiam.") as frontispiece, plus engraved illustrations and wood- engraved figures in text. Small quarto. 18.5 x 14 cm. [14],224,40 pp. Two brief ink corrections in text on pages 27 and 62, and page 96 is soiled. Two leaves (G4 & H1) have paper repairs at bottom fore-corners and several leaves at the end have small loss at bottom fore-corner, none of which affects any text. Yet it is a clean copy overall and handsomely bound in modern full sprinkled calf done in period style, with a gilt- lettered red morocco spine label. Moxon (1627-1691) was a hydrographer - that is a map and chart printer and seller - and mathematician who was skilled in many things (smithing, engraving, printing books and pictures) as well as globe and map making. He operated a shop 'on Corn-hill, at the signe of Atlas' where he sold astronomical books, maps, and instruments. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1678. (DNB, Wing M3021).